All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt. [...] The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

I read my books aloud before they were published.

Don't stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don't forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.